Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781315748320
Series Statement:
Routledge Jewish studies series
Content:
"The term 'Rabbi' predominantly denotes Jewish men qualified to interpret the Torah and apply halacha, or those entrusted with the religious leadership of a Jewish community. However, the role of the rabbi has been understood differently across the Jewish world. The significance of past and present rabbis and their religious and political influence endures across the world. Rabbis of Our Time provides a comprehensive overview of the most influential rabbinical authorities of Judaism in the 20th and 21st Century. Through focusing on the most theologically influential rabbis of the contemporary era and examining their political impact, it opens a broader discussion of the relationship between Judaism and politics. It looks at the various centers of current Judaism and Jewish thinking, especially the State of Israel and the USA, as well as locating rabbis in various time periods. Through interviews and extracts from religious texts and books authored by rabbis, readers will discover more about a range of rabbis, from those before the formation of Israel to the most famous Chief Rabbis of Israel, as well as those who did not reach the highest state religious functions, but influenced the relation between Judaism and Israel by other means. The rabbis selected represent all major contemporary streams of Judaism, from ultra-Orthodox/Haredi to Reform and Liberal currents, and together create a broader picture of the scope of contemporary Jewish thinking in a theological and political context. An extensive and detailed source of information on the varieties of Jewish thinking influencing contemporary Judaism and the modern State of Israel, this book is of interest to students and scholars of Jewish Studies, as well as Religion and Politics"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About the authors; 1 Introduction; 2 Who are rabbis?; 3 Profiles of rabbinical authorities; The miraculous father from Morocco; Heaven's will from Ger; The rabbi with an Iron Cross; With body and soul against Zionism; The 'dead' Hasids; The Sephardi mentor of the settlers; The successor of Rabbi Shach; The Jewish settler as the peacekeeper; A rabbi serving as a general; The rabbi who convinced the pope; The Palestinian rabbis; The rabbi who predicted the coming of the Messiah; The rabbi for everyday; Never again; The vision of a man
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Redeemers of the landA friend of John Paul II; The settler from Hebron; The Messiah from Brooklyn?; The Lithuanian giant; In the name of the Torah and science; The guardian of Jerusalem; Guardian of the Jewish traditions from Satmar; The righteous man who bribed the Devil; The king of rabbinical politics; 4 A collection of shorter profiles of several rabbis; Arik W. Ascherman; Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag; Ezra Attiya; Shlomo Zalman Auerbach; Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin); Yehuda Berg; Elmer Berger; Joseph Samuel Bloch; Shmuel (Shmuley) Boteach; Moshe Feinstein; Yihyah Kafih and Yosef Kafih
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Yaakov Yisrael KanievskyHarold Kushner; Berl Lazar; Michael Lerner; Dov Lior; Michael Melchior; Chaim Nahum; Yitzhak Nisim; Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto; Aharon Roth; Jonathan Henry Sacks; Yedidia Shofet; Adin Steinsaltz; Menachem Mendel Taub; Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel (Ouziel); Elchonon Wasserman; Yisroel Dovid Weiss; Shalom Dovber Halevi Wolpo; 5 Some final thoughts instead of a conclusion; Glossary of terms; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1317605446
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138813168
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317605447
Additional Edition:
Print version Rabbis of our Time : Authorities of Judaism in the Religious and Political Ferment of Modern Times
Language:
English
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